axilla

• Thirteen have been collected by Wyeth with four recoveries and nine deaths LIGATURE OF SUBCLAVIAN.--_Third Part._--For this comparatively common operation, various methods of procedure have been suggested and employed In the dead body, where the axilla is free from swelling, and in thin patients, the artery in this third stage is tolerably superficial, and can be secured with ease. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• But in very muscular men, with short necks and well curved clavicles, and specially when the axilla is filled up with an aneurism, and the shoulder cannot be depressed, the operation becomes very difficult Operation of Ramsden, Liston, and Syme._--_Position._--The patient lying on his back with his shoulders supported by pillows, and his head lying back, and drawn to the opposite side; the shoulder of the affected side must be depressed as much as possible Incisions._--(Plate I. fig. 8.) —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• The assistant is to follow the knife with his finger and compress the vessels b._) If the left shoulder is to be amputated, the patient lying on his right side, the surgeon stands behind him, and raising the elbow of the limb to be removed from the side, and pulling it slightly backwards, enters the knife at the posterior fold of the axilla (Plate II. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• One or two small branches supplying the anterior fold of the axilla are the only vessels divided, and may not even require ligature, unless, indeed, from necrosis, or to remove a tumour, a larger portion of the humerus than usual has been removed. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• From the posterior fold of the axilla, O P, Plate 11, to the bend of the elbow, the same main vessels take the name of brachial When the axillary space is cut into from the forepart through the great pectoral muscle, H K, Plate 11, and beneath this through the lesser pectoral muscle, L I, together with the fascial processes which invest these muscles anteriorly and posteriorly, the main bloodvessels and nerves which traverse this space are displayed, holding in general that relative position which they exhibit in Plate 11. —  Surgical Anatomy

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